Colin D. Stolle, Commonwealth’s
Attorney for the city of Virginia Beach, announced today that Blair Joshua Carr,
25 years old, formerly of the 900 block of Sedley Road in Virginia Beach,
Virginia, was found guilty by Circuit Court Judge A. Bonwill Shockley of First
Degree Murder.Carr is scheduled to be
sentenced on September 12, 2016, and faces a maximum punishment of life in
prison.

The Commonwealth’s evidence
proved that on March 22, 2014, Blair Joshua Carr murdered his 50-year-old mother,
Rosetta Carr, in the home they shared on Sedley Road in Virginia Beach.Carr had been thinking of committing suicide
for some time, and decided that if he killed his mother he would go through
with killing himself because the alternative would be a lengthy term in
prison.He planned the killing for
weeks, and hid a knife under his bed in the days leading up to the murder.On March 22, Carr and his mother got into an
argument because she told him he needed to find a job or he would no longer be
able to stay in her house.He beat her
and stabbed her repeatedly, even going to get a second and third knife due to
the first two knives breaking. After killing his mother, Carr remained in the
house with her body and wrote a letter to police explaining his actions. Two
days later, Carr called the police and admitted to killing her.The police responded and determined that she
had been deceased for some time.In an
interview with detectives, Carr again confessed to killing his mother.